She gazed at the stars and into the illimitable spaces beyond them, and thought of life and its inconceivable littleness, as millions had done before in the presence of that same firmament.
And now the sun broke out pallid and waterish; the rain yet fell, but there was no more tempest: that hot firmament had cloven and poured out its lightnings.
A heavy firmament, dull, and thick with snow, sailed up from the north, and settled over expectant Europe.
Oh, how welcome, the widening of that dismal watery level, the gradual uplifting of the cloudy firmament, the slowly defining blackness of objects above the glassy dark!
Darling there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: "Now, Peter!
and after a year's patient searching he somehow spotted Pluto, a faint point of light in a glittery firmament.
Not live by bread alone, but by the splendor of the firmament at night, the glory of the heavens at dawn, the blending of colors at sunset, the loveliness of the magnolia trees, and the magnificence of the mountains.
I believe in a Supreme Power, unknowable and impersonal, whose handiwork the soul-enlarging firmament declares.
-- Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament.
Everything Aleck touched turned to fairy gold, and heaped itself glittering toward the firmament.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
The calyx of the flower itself formed a most beautiful, glittering, circular hall, above which no other roof arose than the blue firmament and the sun and stars.
The whole firmament was ablaze with the northern lights, and yet the darkness triumphed.
The sun shone brightly in the blue firmament above, and through the clear mountain air came the sound of the huntsman's horn, and the soft, sweet notes brought tears into his eyes, and he could not help exclaiming, "How good and loving God is to give us all this beauty and loveliness in the world to make us happy!
